Wednesday, 28 October 2015

Hello everyone and welcome to another week on the Chocolate Baroque Challenge Blog. This week we are announcing the winner of Challenge Fifteen. The winner of our £15 prize to spend at Chocolate Baroque is Debbie DaqaDoodles, whose card was drawn by Random.org as the overall winner. Congratulations Debbie, we hope that you enjoy your prize.

You can also display our Winner's badge on your blog, details of how to obtain the badge can be found on the FAQ tab at the top of the page. Please email Lesley on lesley@chocolatebaroque.com so that she can organise your voucher.

Our Top Three this month have been chosen by the Design Team, who have had a tough job choosing just three projects from such a fabulous array of stunning entries. The Top Three in no particular order are:

Congratulations girls, you can display the Top Three badge on your blog. Details of how to obtain the badge can be found on the FAQ tab at the top of the page. Well done to everyone who entered, and we hope that you will enter the current challenge. You can find the details here.

We have some more Design Team inspiration for you this week. Julie has created a pretty scene using some of the stamps recently featured on the Craft Channel television shows:

Thank you so much for your projects girls, we hope that they will inspire you to create something yourselves for the current challenge.

We will be back next week with more projects from the Design Team, but until then, we look forward to seeing more of your entries. If you have any questions and cannot find the answers on the blog, please send us a private message using the contact form located at the very end of this blog post; you will see it after the comments section.

Wednesday, 21 October 2015

Hello everyone, and welcome to a brand new challenge on the Chocolate Baroque Challenge Blog. We would like to thank you for your lovely comments throughout the month, as we always look forward to reading them.

We will be announcing the winner of Challenge Fifteen next week, so if you entered a project last month, please be sure to check the announcement to see if you are the winner of our prize.

As a reminder to those of you who have visited our blog before, and for anyone who is new to the blog, our challenges are monthly, based on an inspirational photo and a colour swatch. A new challenge is posted on the third Wednesday of every month. You can use any medium to create your project; ink, paints, pens, pencils, etc., as long as you keep to the colours from the colour swatch in your project.

We are offering a monthly prize of £15 to spend on Chocolate Baroque stamps to one lucky winner, who will be selected by Random.org from all of the entrants who have used Chocolate Baroque stamps that are currently for sale on the website. We welcome entries incorporating other stamps, but they will not be eligible to win the prize. All entrants will have the chance to be selected as one of our Top Three and can then display our 'I made the Top Three at Chocolate Baroque' badge on their blog.

Now onto this month's challenge:

The challenge will close at 12.00 p.m. on Tuesday 17th November 2015, and the winner will be announced on Wednesday 25th November 2015. Here are some inspirational projects from the Design Team for you:

Thank you girls for your inspiration. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our challenge blog team. You can get in touch by sending us a private message. Details are at the end of this blog post below the comments section.

We hope that you enjoy the new challenge colours, and look forward to seeing your projects for the challenge.

Wednesday, 14 October 2015

Hello everyone and welcome to our final week of the current challenge on the Chocolate Baroque Challenge Blog. Thank you for all of your lovely comments during the month, we really value your support, and thoroughly enjoy reading what you have to say.

This week, we are taking a look at some of the entries that we have received for the current challenge, and showcasing just a few of them on the blog. It has been difficult to choose from such a fabulous selection, and you have clearly enjoyed this month's colour swatch. Here are a few projects that we would like to mention:

Carole has used some of our newest edge stamps, combined with a scenic stamp to create a lovely elegant card:

Sandra has used cling film to create a fabulous background for her beautiful Christmas card:

Vronnie's lovely golden angel is floating on a Brusho background, which creates an amazing contrast:

Kristiina has created a very atmospheric scene using this month's colours:

Finally Barbara's understated CAS card is so pretty and is such a clever design:

What a fabulous cross selection of styles and techniques to represent the challenge, thank you ladies!

Thank you to everyone who entered the challenge this month, and we hope to see lots more entries from you before the challenge deadline next week. There is still plenty of time to enter, and you can find the link in this post. Remember, you stand a chance of winning a £15 voucher, details of which can be found on the How it Works tab at the top of the page. We will be back next week with a brand new challenge. If you have any questions and cannot find the answers on the blog, please send us a private message using the contact form located at the very end of this post; you will see it after the comments section.

Wednesday, 7 October 2015

Hello everyone, welcome to another week on the Chocolate Baroque Challenge Blog. We hope that you are enjoying our current challenge and that the colour palette is inspiring you to create some colourful projects of your own. If you would like to enter our current challenge, you can add your project to the link in this post.

We have a free download from Lesley for you this week, and she has created another beautiful design for you to use in your creative projects. Please do not pass the image onto others, but send them back here to collect the freebie for themselves.

To obtain your free download, please click on the image below. Once you have enlarged the image on your screen, right click the image, choose the option 'Save As', and save the image to your computer. You can now print the image onto a variety of surfaces for your crafting projects.

The Design Team have been making some projects for your inspiration using the free download. Florence has made this stunning floral card.

Thank you girls for your beautiful cards. We hope that we have inspired you to use this lovely download yourself. If you do make something using one of Lesley's downloads, why not upload a picture to our Facebook page? We would love to see what you have made.

We will be back next week with another post, but in the meantime, we look forward to seeing your entries for the challenge. Don't forget if you have any questions, and you cannot find the answers on the blog, please send us a private message using the contact form located at the very end of this post; you will see it after the comments section.

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Welcome

A very warm welcome to the Chocolate Baroque Challenge Blog. We love crafting and stamping in particular and we love to share and encourage you to have a go.

We hope that you will be inspired to get your stamps inked up, make some time to play and end up with a creation you are proud to share with us all.

Please take a look around - we have tabs at the top that give you lots of information about how our challenges work and if you have any questions at all, please use the Contact page to get in touch and one of the team will get back to you.